Portrait of the Artist as a Young Patient: Psychodynamic Studies of the Creative Personality

by Gerald Alper

Book Overview

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Patient, the first book of non-fiction written by Gerald Alper, is also the first serious attempt to explore in depth the dynamics of the yet-to-be recognized, unfulfilled and usually perplexed fledgling artist. The artist tries to live in two separate worlds: a factual, linear, banal, reality-driven outer world that is best kept at arm's length; and a creatively organized, aesthetically orchestrated, dramatically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573092037
• ISBN13: 9781573092036
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: International Scholars Publications
• Length: 260 Pages